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On the car trip to Colorado, I changed a setting on my camera. I switched it to Auto ISO. I’ve never had my camera on this setting before; I’ve always manually controlled the ISO on my camera. I know, I know. Silly, right? You all keep the ISO on Automatic all the [...] Keep Reading

Looking through my photo archives is an exercise in hilarity and confusion, and here’s why: When I got my first camera in May 2006, the internal date was correct. When I got a different model at the end of 2006, the calendar was off by a year. I used that camera for over a year. So [...] Keep Reading

By Miz Booshay. When you buy a camera, a digital SLR camera, it will most likely come with a kit lens. These kit lenses are most commonly: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II SLR Lens The Nikon D5000 comes with a 3x Zoom AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens included Here is the [...] Keep Reading

By Miz Booshay. This picture got me thinking. Katie’s face looked off to me. Her nose seemed longer and one cheek looks indented while the other is not. I have on the 35mm 2.0 lens. It is a wide angle lens. I’d say medium wide. There is a 20mm lens and a 24 mm lens…and I [...] Keep Reading

One of the first Photoshop tutorials I taught was on using Soft Light. Since I learned about the Vivid mode in my Nikon camera, I don’t need to use such a dramatic tool as often. My pictures are already very saturated and contrasty. But a few weeks ago I had reason to take the camera [...] Keep Reading

The question I am asked most frequently is “How do you get such good focus?” I wrote a post for Ree a few years ago, and here it is: The Secret to Focus Yet I still receive frustrated emails and letters. The writers wonder if it is the lens, if it is the camera, if it is [...] Keep Reading

Note: Rather than post an exhaustive list of all the photography equipment I’m using these days, I thought I’d devote individual posts the the lenses, accessories, etc. that I love. Here’s the first post of that series: Excuse me while I sing for a moment. [...] Keep Reading

By Miz Booshay. A really cool thing about getting to spend time with another photographer is being able to try some of their stuff. Especially when you are both Nikon girls. The first night of my visit to the ranch, Ree brought over her 200 mm lens. It was very heavy and intimidating. I [...] Keep Reading

Attention, Attention: I hereby request that all persons who: a) are smarter than me and/or b) have experience in this realm …please advise me: a) what in tarnation has happened to my camera and b) where I should take/send it to be fixed. You got all that? Is it dust on the sensor? It [...] Keep Reading

Guess what? I wrote a guest post for Scott Kelby’s website today. In the post, I both babble like a maniac and show just a few of my very favorite pieces of photography equipment. I don’t think Scott has actually seen it yet—if he had, I’m sure he would have taken [...] Keep Reading

I love photography. Whether I’m good or not is not really the point. I just love it as an activity, a discipline, a hobby. I love that there’s always—always something new to learn, something new to try… And something new to buy. Photography can be an expensive [...] Keep Reading

When I was visiting my beloved sister, Wetsy, in Austin last month, I wound up staying five days longer than I originally intended. I drove down to Austin like a thief in the night the second she called to tell me she was in labor, and what originally began as a two-day trip quickly turned [...] Keep Reading

When I hurriedly left for Austin Monday, I decided to leave my beloved Nikon camera with Marlboro Man because my two boys were getting ready to embark upon a two-day camping adventure with none other than my mother-in-law and I just couldn’t bear the thought of missing out on those [...] Keep Reading

By Miz Booshay. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. The blowing wind is one of the most delightful natural special effects to utilize in your photography. It adds a little somethin’-somethin’ to the picture. It adds mystery, excitement, beauty. The wind adds to the bokeh [...] Keep Reading

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